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Police have charged an Ottawa woman after officers investigated two reports of theft, one from a charity collection jar.

A Kingston Police news release says that at about 10:15 a.m. a woman was in the check-in-area of a campground north of Kingston. A surveillance camera then caught the woman taking a donation jar containing between $200-300 in cash being collected to support two brothers in Kenya to go to school.

“While in the store the accused placed a towel she was carrying over top a large donation jar,” says the news release. “She then removed the jar from the counter and walked away.”

The next day police say the same woman was at a grocery store on Midland Avenue at approximately 1:15 p.m. Caught on surveillance cameras again, they say the woman placed several items of clothing over her shoulder and walked out without paying.

The woman was identified with information gathered from store security and social media posts. She was located on Thursday at about 2:15 p.m. while sleeping in her car in a parking lot on Bath Road.

A 25-year-old Ottawa woman has been charged by police with two counts of theft. She attended bail court on Friday.